Marcus Aurelius: SSI Monograph on Known Unknowns – Unconventional “Strategic Shocks” in Defense Strategy Development

Ladies and Gentlemen: You may want to check out US Army War College Strategic Studies Institute paper at link below and attached: Read with a view to some of the strange things that have been ascribed to FEMA. KNOWN UNKNOWNS: UNCONVENTIONAL “STRATEGIC SHOCKS”IN DEFENSE STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT Nathan Freier Strategic Studies Institute, November 2008 EXTRACTS:

Steven Aftergood: Report on Congressional Oversight of Intelligence 2011-2012

A LOOK BACK AT CONGRESSIONAL OVERSIGHT OF INTELLIGENCE, 2011-2012 Several nuggets of interest are presented in the latest biennial report from the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, summarizing the Committee’s oversight activities in the 112th Congress: *    The Director of National Intelligence abruptly cancelled a multi-year effort to establish a single consolidated data center for …

Eagle: Jon Rappoport: Congress, Not Monsanto, Is Our Center of Gravity

Monsanto proves that corporations don’t run the government by Jon Rappoport March 27, 2013 Collectivists have a favorite target. Big bad corporations. This is a complete scam. Why did Goldman Sachs turn out to be the biggest funder of Obama’s 2008 election bid? Why weren’t the corporate banksters who demanded and received those enormous bailouts, …

Worth a Look: Books on Open Source

2013 Bazzell, Michael (2013).  Open Source Intelligence Techniques: Resources for Searching and Analyzing Online Information.  CreateSpace. 4.0 out of 5 stars A Useful Contribution–See the Table of Contents January 30, 2013 Garbutt, John (2013). Building an OpenStack Cloud: From zero to the cloud with open source technologies.  O’Reilly Media. Publication Date: August 22, 2013 There …

Marcus Aurelius: KR Speculation About North Korea War Risk

From LIGNET (Langley Intelligence Group Network), a local commercial intel firm that trades on the perception, valid or otherwise, that it has ties to CIA. North Korea Threat Real; Retaliation Could Start Hot War March 19, 2013 After just over one year in power, North Korea’s novice leader, 30-year old Kim Jong Un, has dashed …

NIGHTWATCH: North Korea Threatens War During Major US Exercise in South Korea Lasting to 30 April

North Korea:  NightWatch’s review of events since 1 January indicates that the North Koreans have been preparing this breakout since 2 February when Kim Jong Un began a series of meetings, starting with the Military Central Commission. NightWatch judges the actions are deliberately planned because of their breadth, coherence and consistency. The North’s depiction of …

Marcus Aurelius: Gun Control, Revolution, & Secession

This is circulating among retired SOF O-6’s. The Next American Civil War Cusp of violence: Defend something the political left, an authoritarian cabal itself, cannot abide, at all: personal freedom, individual freedom. “Tyrants preserve themselves by sowing fear and mistrust among the citizens by means of spies, by distracting them with foreign wars, by eliminating …